I have no doubt the crime rate is higher for certain crimes among 15-30 years old immigrants from say, North African countries. The question is why and this is one point I don't think we see eye to eye on.
It is commonplace for employers here in Norway to automatically throw job applications in the dustbin if the name sounds "foreign". The unemployment rate among young immigrants from especially African countries is noticably higher than for any other group. These 2 are not unrelated.
1 quarter 2016:
Among non immigrants: 2.4% unemployed.
Nordic immigrants: 3.4
Rest of Western Europe: 4.6
North America + Oceania: 3.9
Eastern Europe (EU): 10
African countries: 12.1
https://ssb.no/arbeid-og-lonn/statistikker/innvarbl
This is not irrelevant in the slightest when we talk about crimes like theft, burglary, drug related crimes, in short crimes that don't require a lot of network building and resources, that "offer" quick cash. For organized crime, eastern Europe poses a greater threat at least here. Neither is it irrelevant if we look at what future prospect young people from these countries have, and more importantly what they percieve they have. You want to know why they turn to crimes like the ones I mentioned, then look at these numbers.
Asia, including the middle east, weights in at 8, somewhere in the middle. It reflects in the crime statistics for the same crimes.
You want to fight these crimes, then pointing at their religion is nothing but a red herring.
Furthermore, here we talk about people from North Africa and Africa in general. We are not talking about religion now. I have said and I will repeat myself here: We are dealing with regional/national issues. Each nationality brings its own set of issues. Some crime related, others not. No size fits all.
We are also talking about cultures. Plural. The culture in say, Tunisia is not the same as in say, Morocco, or in the middle east, where culture is as diverse as any other place. Theft part of "their culture"? In some muslim countries, they still chop off the hand of thieves. In others, they jail them. Like we do. In certain central African countries, jungle justice is very much alive where thieves are lynched by mobs, including being burnt alive. Not what I would call accepting to thievery. Murderers are executed in Saudi Arabia as they are in the US and China.
As for rape: India, which is not a north African country, nor a muslim country and certainly not an arab country, is plagued by rape and an acceptance for it by leading figures. Child prostitution is a major problem in buddhist countries like Thailand, where western men in particular are the main "customers". There are organizations in the west lobbying for legalization of paedophilia.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/1...for-males.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...s-8559000.html
and more. Look up NAMBLA if you need more reason to be upset.
Honour killings were not unknown to the Romans although in modern times it is indeed true that it is something more connected to countries in the middle east, and in India where people to this day are sometimes hacked to death for marrying someone of the wrong caste.
It is true that honour killings are more of an issue among immigrants from countries in the middle east and north africa, and again India and Pakistan, but it is not entirely unknown in Europe either, although not as common nowadays.
http://hbv-awareness.com/regions/